Presenters struggle to grasp the correct pronunciation of Greta Thunberg (pictured)What do Greta Thunberg, Chernobyl and the gilets jaunes all have in common? The organisation - a group of shorthand specialists and professional subtitlers - compiled a list of the trickiest words newsreaders regularly trip up over, according to The Times. They found that presenters struggle to grasp the correct pronunciation of Greta Thunberg. And only last week the BIVR said that Adam Boulton, the Sky News correspondent, had difficulty pronouncing gilets jaunes when reporting on protests in France. Prorogue (pruh-rOHg) A temporary suspension of parliament enacted by the Queen on the advice of the prime minister this autumn.

Source: Daily Mail December 11, 2019 01:52 UTC